Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 Size:36x24 became the country's mirror during

became the country's mirror during its self-inflicted wound

signed in the ornamented hand of a republic newly intoxicated by commerce

189- rendered in the architectural pride of the Queen City at her ornamented peak

The Danziger Cigarette Patent of 1865 is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 Size:36x24 became the country's mirror duringCamp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 a documentary view of the Union's vast prison stockade on the lakefront, where Confederate captives wintered behind plank walls and rumor of conspiracy. The image carries the cold ledger weight of 1864: barracks in rows, sentries at their posts, a war counted in men confined. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional